Piscatorial Rambles; Or, the Fisherman's Pocket Companion
Piscatorial Rambles; Or, the Fisherman's Pocket Companion
George Bagnall
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To the pent-up Londoner there is something refreshing and delightful in the very name, so suggestive of sloping banks, luxuriant hedgerows, and sheltering, overhanging trees, and truly these and greater attractions grace the walk we now purpose to in- dulge in, for half an hour brings us to River House, a mansion whose lawns dotted with scarlet geraniums and other autumnal flowers, fringe the banks of the stream, which here presents a most beautiful and serpentine appearance. Standing upon the ...d by Google 36 MSCATCEIAL RAMBLES. bridge, one of the most striking and magnifident views meets the eye that can be found near London. On either hand alter- nate vales, in which repose the happy homestead and peaceful hamlet; and hilly tracts, thickly wooded, are bounded only by the horizon ; while peeping from the rich and gorgeons foliage, whose deep green is studded by the russet tint which proclaims the fading year, the spires of some eight or ten churches add grace and beauty to the scene. On the left towers the edifice which surmounts the rising ground of Alexandra Park, and quietly slumbering in the valley at its foot, the eye, rests upon l^e extensive structure appropriated to tiie unfortunate inmates of the asylum at Colney Hatch, relative to which, however, I will speak no more, as it may be my fate at some future period to pen notes frfym the spot Proceeding in a straight line through this pleasing scenery, twenty minutes' walk brings us into the main road, which runs through the "Towne of Tattenham," and the " Seven Sisters " at once attract our attention and solicitude.
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